Returned last night from the AFA-NIET held in Austin, TX. The team took 26th (a slight drop from last year, but we had one fewer competitor and a freshman with only one event). I broke Prose and Poetry to QFs, but that’s as far as I got. One week til NFA in Nashville. Prepping, prepping, prepping. I want to make this one count. A bit of poetry…

would you like to play
a fun little game called
what are you going to say?
can you come around?
my arms and your waist
certain we will fall down.
scribble down my thought
on a scrap of paper.
ideas that can’t be caught.
we will walk in time
to the sound of a drum
beating out nonverbal rhyme.

Despite not quite meeting my goals for AFA, I had a very good time and learned a lot about myself. Which is why I do this activity, I suppose. And I met some really amazing people. Another reason. Alright. School work.